Jewish Herald-Voice (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 26, 1946 Page: 1 of 12
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A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF SOUTHWEST JEWRY
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War Crimes Hear Nazis Killed 121
Jews to Complete Skeleton Collection
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By ROBERT GART
Nuremberg (JTA)—The murder
by Nazi technician! of 121 Jews,
including 30 women, in order to
complete the collection of skele-
tons at the Strasbourg Anatomical
Institute, then under German ad-
ministration, was described at the
trial of 23 German doctors be-
fore a U. S war crimes tribu-
nal.
Henri Henrj -Pierre, a French
chemist who was employed at the
Institute, testified that when the
warm and bore signs of having
died violently. AH the corpses
were of persons of good physique.
ing tanks for one year until with
file advent of the Allied invasion,
the directors of the Institute
thwarted by Henry-Pierre who
disposed of only a few bodies.
The prosecution introduced evi-
that Pi»nn^^ wlfco
was Gestapo Chief Heinrich
Himmler’s assistant at one time,
and Wolfram Sievers, a former
S. S. colonel and director of
the Institute, collaborated with
other Nazis in obtaining the
skeletons of the “Jewish Bolshe-
vik commissars,” as .victims were
described. Also introduced was
» an affidavit from Rudolph Brandt,
stating that Karl Brandt, Hit-
ler’s personal physician and chief
defendant, initiated jaundice ex-
periments using Jews as pa-
tients.
Other affidavits by defendants
Fritz Fischer and Herta Ober-
hauser, a woman, both of whom
' were physicians at the Ravens-
bruck concentration camp, de-
scribed experiments carried out
on Jewish and Polish women in
which legs were amputated and
the stumps infected with wood
shavings, and shards of glass
then treated with sulfanilamide.
Many of the victims died as a
result of the experiments and the
remainder were crippled and dis-
figured, the affidavit said.
• • •
Nasi Doctors SteriUacd
1AM Women Dally
Earlier, a French Jewish doc-
tor, Robert Levy, who was com-
pelled by the Ngzis to work in
the hospital wards at the Os-
wiecim death camp, told file
tribunal of the effects on thou-
sands of Jews of experiments
carried out there.
Another witness declared that
the Nazis sterilized as many as
1,000 Jewish women a day during
1043. Sterilization resulted from
injections of an irritating solu-
tion during routine gynecological
examinations without the victims
being aware of it
Dr. Levy, who was in charge
of a Jewish ward where the
major portion of the cases were
men and women who had been
sterilized and badly burned by
X-rays, said most of the horn
cases developed into cancer, add-
ing that all the sterilized pa-
tients eventually became physical
wrecks. He said that German
doctors made periodic checks of
his ward, sending thin and weak
patients to the gas chamber.
The prosecution also introduc-
ed evidence proving that steriliza-
tion experiments were part of a
premeditated plan to wipe out
the Jewish people. Other wit-
nesses testified that Jewish pris-
oners were used in fatal experi-
ments including high altitude
tests, malaria reseach and the
effects of drinking sea water.
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Chief DP Physician Describes
Atrocities Committed
By Nazi Doctor*
— New York (JTA)—A descrip-
tion of Nazi use of Jews as
guinea pigs in barbarous medical
experiments was given last night
by Dr. Boris Pliskin, chief physi-
Baric Issues Before Zionist Cmcne
Still Unresolved as Parley Concludes
By VICTOR M-
Basle (JTA) — As the Bad —
World Zionist Congress peered **■*•*■
conclusion this week, the two equally
chief issues before the assemblage
—partition and participation in
the London Conference — ware w**k *
still unresolved. accept
Meanwhile, pro-Weizmann and °* 1
anti-Weizmann forces were jock-
eying for position, as the future
GOLDSTEIN ASSUMES
DUTIES AS DIRECTOR
OF J. C COUNCIL
Albert Goldstein, executive di-
rector of the Houston Jewish
Community CouwiB, took office
about a month a^x Ha has been
arranging Um AHati work
the annual United Jewish
Campaign which this year will
be staged during the months of
bqsy
of tl
^ . ------- ^JMarch and April Under his
^ guidance, the Houston Jewish
Community Orancil will open a
Campaign tor double the amount
raised in 1946. The great needs
overseas, and the increasing cost
of national and local institutions
and organizations has made it im-
camps in the American zone of
Germany, addressing a meeting
here called by the OSE to ac-
quaint the American public with
the crimes committed by Nazi
physicians.
In addition to Dr. Pliskin, who
spent several years In German
death camps and ghettoes and
personally witnessed the extermi-
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SCHUMAN REELECTED
ADATH EMETH HEAD
Abe Schuman was re-atoetod
president of Congregation Adath
Emeth at the pnnnal mooting of
the congregation held during De-
cember. Elected to serve with
Mr. Schuman were: Sam Finger,
vice-president; Ben M. Levine,
vice-president; J. Tapick, vice-
president; Sol Klinger, treasurer,
Nathan P. Young, corresponding
secretary.
perafive that the maxim urn giv-
ing be practiced this year.
Mr. Goldstein has had a varied
experience in the social service
field. He was with the Baltimore
Emergency Relief Commis-
sion from 1932 through 1937. The
following year he was a scholar-
ship student at fit* University of.
Chicago and then returned as
field supervisor for the State De-
partment of Welfare of Mary-
land.
He was given leave of absence
to make a survey of the state
with particular reference to the
possibility of resettling refugees
from Baltimore Into the various
countias. In 1940-41 ha served as
executive director of the Asso-
ciated Placement and Guidance
Bureau, a constituent agency of
the Associated Jewish Charities
of Baltimore.
In 1941 he became assistant di-
rector of the Associated Jewish
Charities of Baltimore, with the
exception of the period from
March, 1943 imtil July, 1946 when
he served as Field Director for
the American Red Crow over-
seas. Fran Baltimore he was
called to Houston to aarva as
executlce director of the Com-
munity Council here.
A graduate of the University
of Maryland, ha received his B. A
in 1932 and his Bachelor of Law
in 1964. He received his M. A
degree In Serial Service Ad-
ministration at the University of
Chicago in 1966.
YOUTH LEADER TO BE
EMANU EL SPEAKER
Mr. Leonard Spring, president
of the National Federation of
Temple Youth, will be gum*
speaker at Temple Emanu El for
the Youth Service to be held
on Friday, December 27, at Cen-
tral Presbyterian Church. A re-
cent graduate of New York Uni-
versity. Mr. Spring Is now a
young advertising executive.
His interest in youth work be-
gan in his joining Temple Rodeph
Sholem, New York, at which he
was later elected president He
served as Treasurer of the New
York Metropolitan Council of
Temple Youth, and as an active
worker was soon appointed to
the Board of the National Fed-
eration of Trinpte Youth, and later
chairman of its Social Justice
Committee. In March of this
year he was elected to the ottos
he now hokfe
Mr. Spring recently conducted
s youth meeting for repnosntoivus
from Austin, Dellas, Galveston and
Temples Emanu El and Both Is-
rael of Houston, to‘discuss local
penMama at too youth organiza-
tions to this area.
The Youth Service tor Dee. 27
the candles will bo given
Mias Barbara Nathan, and
blessing over the wine by Hast
Conch. Participating in the aarv-
teo rill be Irwin Schild, Caroline
Liedeker, Dorothy Freed. Mrs.
Motor Jooaph is in charge at re-
freshments tor the recaption to
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